Monday, March 16, 2020

Fighting Coronavirus: Too bad we didn't get that border wall built


Retiring Guy suggests, satirically.

(COVID-19 map, FAQs)

Trump’s Discordant Display of Nativism in a Pandemic.  (The New Yorker, 3/17/2020)
Trump won the Presidency while pledging to wall America off from the world;  
[snip] 
He reportedly did not consult the E.U. before announcing his restrictions, a churlish decision that will do nothing to ease European leaders’ exasperation with him. On this, as on so much else in his foreign policy, Trump’s needless provocations have undermined U.S. security; it is absurd to suggest that the United States can contain this pandemic behind its own borders without extensive help from allies in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Who are you planning to vote for in November?
Trump’s wobbly claim that his wall could stop the coronavirus.  (Washington Post, 3/12/2020)

Related posts:
March 16-31, 2020
Panicked shoppers flock to Woodman's West in Madison WI.  (3/16/2020)
Worldometer (and others) track the Coronavirus.  (3/16/2020) 

March 11-15, 2020
The 40 GOP members of the House of Representatives who voted against the Coronavirus Relief Bill.  (3/15/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: Trump proposes corporate bailouts while local and state public health departments starve.  (3/15/2020)
Coronavirus point/counterpoint, starring a clueless Donald Trump.  (3/15/2020)
What's the matter with Ted Cruz?  (3/14/2020)
Coronavirus notwithstanding, 4 a.m. DNC bar time still a priority for Wisconsin state legislature.  (3/13/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: 2 Trump fanboys (and Freedom Caucus crazies) reinforce the notion of white male privilege.  (3/11/2020)
Stacking up responses to the coronavirus pandemic (the political rallies edition).  (3/11/2020) 

March 6-10, 2020
The White House burns, a 'raging' fire, while Mike Pence fiddles.  (3/10/2020)
Worldometer (and others) track the Coronavirus.  (3/10/2020)
Presenting Donald Trump, star of The Coronavirus Show.  (3/9/2020)
Trump coronavirus point-counterpoint (stock market edition).  (3/9/2020)
Channeling Bloody Mary: White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on the Coronavirus.  (3/9/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: Sean Duffy's daughter ridiculed for parroting inane GOP talking point. (3/9/2020)
Dear New York Times, It's called bullying. It's an act of aggression. It has nothing to do with strength of character. Best, Retiring Guy.  (3/9/2020)

March 1-5, 2020
Dear Mike Pence, How's that coronavirus messaging stacking up? Best, Retiring Guy.  (3/5/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: To combat the coronavirus epidemic, Iran's leaders choose a terrible idea.  (3/4/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: Trump fumes as coronavirus tanks stock market, sends re-election campaign strategy off a cliff.  (3/2/2020)
GET ME REWRITE: Pence offers disturbing example of White House's disciplined approach to coronavirus messaging.  (3/2/2020

February 2020
The company he keeps: the Alex Azar connections.  (2/28/2020)
Meet Russell Vought, the 'acting' GOP hack that Trump installed at OMB.  (2/25/2020)
Dear Trump loyalists Richard Shelby and Bradley Byrne, There's this other kind of flu goin' round. Best, Retiring Guy.  (2/24/2020)

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